Physical manifestations and ecological implications of Arctic Atlantification

RB Ingvaldsen, KM Assmann, R Primicerio… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The Atlantic gateway to the Arctic Ocean is influenced by vigorous inflows of Atlantic Water.
The high-latitude impacts of these inflows have strengthened owing to climate change …

Phytoplankton dynamics in a changing Arctic Ocean

M Ardyna, KR Arrigo - Nature Climate Change, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the Arctic atmosphere, cryosphere and Ocean are drastically altering
the dynamics of phytoplankton, the base of marine ecosystems. This Review addresses four …

Weakening of cold halocline layer exposes sea ice to oceanic heat in the eastern Arctic Ocean

IV Polyakov, TP Rippeth, I Fer, MB Alkire… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
A 15-yr duration record of mooring observations from the eastern (> 70° E) Eurasian Basin
(EB) of the Arctic Ocean is used to show and quantify the recently increased oceanic heat …

A Lagrangian snow‐evolution system for sea‐ice applications (SnowModel‐LG): Part I—Model description

GE Liston, P Itkin, J Stroeve, M Tschudi… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A Lagrangian snow‐evolution model (SnowModel‐LG) was used to produce daily, pan‐
Arctic, snow‐on‐sea‐ice, snow property distributions on a 25× 25‐km grid, from 1 August …

Under-ice phytoplankton blooms: Shedding light on the “invisible” part of Arctic primary production

M Ardyna, CJ Mundy, N Mayot, LC Matthes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The growth of phytoplankton at high latitudes was generally thought to begin in open waters
of the marginal ice zone once the highly reflective sea ice retreats in spring, solar elevation …

The role of atmospheric rivers in Antarctic sea ice variations

K Liang, J Wang, H Luo, Q Yang - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic sea ice variations are affected by moisture and heat from low‐and mid‐latitudes,
more than 90% of which are transported by atmospheric rivers (ARs). This study employs the …

Arctic cyclones have become more intense and longer-lived over the past seven decades

X Zhang, H Tang, J Zhang, JE Walsh… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Intense cyclones driving extreme Arctic weather and climate events have been more
frequently observed during recent years, causing dramatic environmental and …

Local and remote atmospheric circulation drivers of Arctic change: A review

GR Henderson, BS Barrett, LJ Wachowicz… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Arctic Amplification is a fundamental feature of past, present, and modelled future climate.
However, the causes of this “amplification” within Earth's climate system are not fully …

A Lagrangian snow evolution system for sea ice applications (SnowModel‐LG): Part II—Analyses

J Stroeve, GE Liston, S Buzzard, L Zhou… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sea ice thickness is a critical variable, both as a climate indicator and for forecasting sea ice
conditions on seasonal and longer time scales. The lack of snow depth and density …

Arctic cyclones and their interactions with the declining sea ice: A recent climatology

E Valkonen, J Cassano… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we applied a cyclone tracking algorithm to multiple reanalyses and categorized
the detected cyclones based on season, intensity, and sea ice state to provide an Arctic …